And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
That brief confession holds our entire salvation: Christ the Anointed means an everlasting Kingdom and Priesthood, expiating our sins through sacrifice, obtaining us perfect righteousness, and supplying every blessing. Peter grasped His divine dignity, believed He came not as other men but by God Himself dwelling in his flesh.
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Peter spoke for all the apostles with characteristic boldness: the Messiah, the Son of God in an eminent and peculiar sense, implying His Divinity. The living God is so called to distinguish Him from dead idols and to mark Him as the Source of all life, temporal, spiritual, and eternal.
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Peter does not hesitate before scribes and Pharisees or hide behind his station as an unlettered fisherman. Feeling his Master's glory shine in his soul, he breaks forth not in tame prose but in language of worship and adoration: Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
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